Month: January 2012

There’s nothing on his first three albums to suggest this would have happened, but Bruce Springsteen has ended up as the kind of musician who likes being on tour during an election year.  Judging from the first single...

The administration rejected the Keystone XL pipeline today. At least for now, the thing is not getting built. Here’s the official reasoning: Statement by the President on the Keystone XL Pipeline Earlier today, I received...

Wisconsin is a mid-sized state with about 3.5 million voters.  Gov. Scott Walker took office just 54 weeks ago, and already 1 million of those voters–slightly more than half of whom actually voted in 2010–want...

I know that Mitt Romney looks like a weak candidate right now, but he’s still awfully close to Obama even in that new Public Policy Polling survey, and I think even people who see him as hopeless and pathetic will agree...

As we begin to contemplate the prospect of a second term for President Obama, I think it is important to reflect back on all our post-war presidents. We’ll discover that the presidency isn’t an easy job and most of...